INTRODUCTION Before jumping into the meat of this article it will be necessary to clarify the subject matter a little. When I will refer to ‘graffiti’ throughout, I will mostly not be intending to include ‘street art’ within that definition, though I will take a...
On a summer evening in July 1927, an artist went for a walk outside the city of Ypres, Belgium. By chance, he spoke to a passerby whose words inspired his best-known painting, a work that symbolically brought fact and meaning together.Will Longstaff, born in...
In this blog post, I want to take a symbolic look at a new phenomenon, namely that of people burning down cell phone towers. This has been happening during the Covid-19 crisis as various conspiracy theories blame 5G technology for the virus . I will look at this...
